LEGONG
In my first painting about Indonesia, I wanted to put two things that had left an impression on me: rice fields and Bali dance - Legong.
Dancing with eyes, eyebrows, fingers
I have seen many traditional dances and they are all interesting, unique, beautiful but Legong was breath taking. There are so many little details, movements of just a little finger is precise. Moving their head left to right, there eyebrows, eyeballs and then all of it together makes you see how much you can dance just with your face. It is expressing a personality trough a dance, imitating animals kings, warriors.
PAINTING BY NATURE
Rice fields
I love how we see from the distance rice fields that come one under the other and they were as amazing as in pictures. What I found interesting are the colors on the surface of a water surrounding rice. In my mind it directly connected to dress of Legong dancers, that I saw afterwards. That is why behind this Legong dancer I decided to put a rice fields looked from above. I colored them with all the different colors of rice fields that I've seen and documented on my trip.